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Ric BucherBio | ChatsRic Bucher joined ESPN in January 1999 as a San Francisco-based senior writer covering professional basketball for ESPN The Magazine, and as an NBA reporter for SportsCenter and NBA 2Night. Bucher also contributes to ESPN.com. |
Rating the first playoff weekend
Marc Stein, ESPN.comHere are eight bests culled from the first eight games of the NBA playoffs.
Story | Conversation | April 20, 2009Raptors acquire Marion from Heat
Marc Stein, ESPN.comThe Toronto Raptors have agreed to send Jermaine O'Neal and Jamario Moon to the Miami Heat in exchange for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks, league sources told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher.
Story | Conversation | February 13, 2009Trade talk: Who's staying, who's going?
Marc Stein, ESPN.comWith the NBA trading deadline looming in two weeks, Marc Stein passes along five fresh dribbles of trade chatter from discussions with team officials and player agents plugged into the front-office grapevine.
Story | Conversation | February 05, 2009Weekend Dime: Talking deal or no deal with Donnie Walsh
Marc Stein, ESPN.comAlan Diaz/AP Photo When Miami Heat forward Shawn Marion opens his eyes on the morning of Feb. 20, will he still be throwing them down in South Florid...
Page | ConversationWeekend Dime: The top 20 expiring contracts
Marc Stein, ESPN.comNoah Graham/Getty Images Allen Iverson already has laced up his walking shoes once this season, getting dealt from Denver to Detroit. It can't poss...
Page | ConversationSources: Suns a 'yes' away from acquiring Shaq for Marion
Marc Stein, ESPN.comSources say the Suns are deciding whether to pull the trigger on a trade for Shaquille O'Neal.
Story | Conversation | February 05, 2008Weekend Dime: Nash on next generation of PGs
Marc Stein, ESPN.comGetty Images Tony Parker is 25. Deron Williams is 23. Chris Paul is 22. So point guard will be the least of the West's worries in future All-Star Gam...
Page | ConversationSPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION And the award goes to ...
Marc Stein, ESPN.comWhat do you get when the final Friday of the regular season falls on Friday the 13th? You get the award ballots I'll be turning into the league offi...
Page | ConversationTalkin' the trade talk
Marc Stein, ESPN.com...San Antonio. One of the more interesting scenarios I heard Tuesday came from my ESPN colleague Ric Bucher, who reported on NBA Coast to Coast and SportsCenter that the Lakers recently had a deal...
Page | ConversationSPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Cubes and the inner circle
Marc Stein, ESPN.com(Editor's note: ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein supplies each item for this around-the-league notebook edition of the Daily Dime.) You've surel...
Page | ConversationBring on Game 7
Marc Stein, ESPN.comLOS ANGELES -- It wasn't just a theory, apparently. It applies in the playoffs, too. It was true this time, yet again, even with the Suns' Ko...
Page | ConversationBad Shaq, brilliant Bulls
Marc Stein, ESPN.comNo, Miami. The sight of Michael Jordan up in that United Center suite, celebrating Shaquille O'Neal's fourth foul and Ben Gordon's biggest triple wi...
Page | ConversationManu School
Marc Stein, ESPN.comAPDuncan and Parker, two-thirds of the Spurs' terrific trio, were less spectacular than Ginobili (see below), but no less effective. PHOENIX -- They ...
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